Defending Street Tuner champions Terry Borcheller and Mike LaMarra scored their first class win of the 2014 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series season at Road America. Borcheller had moved the #23 Burton Racing 128i into the lead just before the third of the race’s four caution periods. He held off Wayne Nonnamaker in a Porsche Cayman on a final-lap restart, edging out the Porsche by just 1.313 seconds.
Trent Hindman and John Edwards finished fourth overall and fourth in Grand Sport in the #46 Fall-Line M3 that Edwards had started from the pole. The overall win went to Lawson Aschenbach and Eric Curran in the CK Autosport Camaro. They took the win after race leader Pierre Kleinubing lost power in the final turn in the Subaru WRX-STI that he shared with Ray Mason. Camaro racers Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis finished second, edging out Kleinubing’s wounded Subaru just before the finish line.
In addition to the winning 128i, four BMWs finished in the top ten in Street Tuner. Greg Liefooghe and Tyler Cooke were fifth in the #81 BimmerWorld E90 328i, Ted Giovanis and David Murry were sixth in the Team TGM E90 328i, James Clay and Jason Briedis were seventh in the BimmerWorld F30 328i, and Seth Thomas and Dan Rogers were ninth in the #82 BimmerWorld E90 328i.
Hindman held on to his GS drivers’ points lead going into the next race at Virginia International Raceway, while Murillo Racing’s Eric Foss, who led ST points coming into Road America, fell back with a fourteenth place finish; the Porsche Cayman that he shared with Jeff Mosing was caught up in an early race incident. At Road America they had switched to the Porsche from the 328i that they had run all season. Unofficially, Wayne Nonnamaker moved into the ST points lead after Road America.
The Caymans, which have been the hot ticket in the last few CTSCC races, were given an extra 50 pounds and a 100 rpm rev reduction at Road America, while the 128s and 328s were given a half-gallon larger fuel cell.
CTSCC competition resumes at VIR on August 23.—Brian S. Morgan
